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The Diabolical Bill Withers

We have had a lot of fun this week on the Seven o'Clock Sample. It's been a celebration of the music of Bill Withers. In 1977, Bill released Menagerie on Columbia records. The album peaked at #16 on the R&B chart and #39 on the Billboard 200. It was Withers' biggest-selling album in the UK, where it reached #27. The first track on the album, "Lovely Day", is one of Bill's signature hits.

(sorry for the bad video, but this song is not anywhere else on youtube...)

This track has been sampled by several hip hop acts, from Jazzy Jeff to Swizz Beatz. But today, we listened to Biz Markie's 2003 track "Friends".

Woke up to some pretty sad music news today,Rodney “Skip” Bryce, better known as as DJ E-Z Rock , has died at 46. The breakout hit "It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock helped rap music to find it's way into the global pop phenomenon...

This week on the Seven O'Clock Sample, we have been looking at the music of the one and only BIZ MARKIE. His biggest hit "JUST A FRIEND" was his most successful Pop single, reaching the #9 position on the Billboard charts. Released in...

This week on the Seven O'Clock Sample, we look at the music of BIZ MARKIE. A member of the JUICE CREW, Biz had a lot of hits on Cold Chillin' Records in the late 1980s. His album GOIN' OFF, contained one of his biggest hits, "Nobody Beats...